The Negro in American Fiction
Washington, D.C. The Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1937. First Edition. Signature-bound octavo (5-3/8 x 8-1/8 inches) in printed card wraps. 209pp. First Edition of this groundbreaking work of Black literary explication and scholarship by poet and scholar Sterling Brown (1901-1989), who spent most of his life working and teaching in Washington D.C. but was still considered an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance. The Negro in American Fiction was the first book by an African-American author to explore the way Black people were depicted and disseminated in American literature, and is still held as a cornerstone in the field. Wraps soiled, rubbed, edgeworn, and creased; spine ends chipped; ghosts of former adhesive tape to inside of wraps; top fore corner of text block dampstained; contents otherwise clean; Good only. Item #3584
Price: $250.00